Fake Crowdsourced Sex Novel Hoping to "Troll" 50 Shades of Grey Fans

Some hilarious internet pranksters have released a fake romance novel on iTunes, managing to get the erotic fiction up to #4 in the iTunes chart simply by it looking a bit like senior citizen wank read of choice 50 Shades of Grey.

The crowdsourced book, which calls itself The Diamond Club: A Novel and is written by the non-existent Patricia Harkins-Bradley, costs 99p to purchase, with proceeds going to fund some sort of nerd gathering by joke organisers NSFW Show. The iTunes description promises hormone-crazed readers "an exotic gathering of the Bay Area's most attractive and interesting people, from angel investors and airline pilots to worldfamous chefs and dubstep artists."

It would appear to be a roaring success already, as the fake novel, complete with five-star reviews from punters in on the joke and happy to blow a quid on infuriating 50 Shades fans, is already at #4 in the Top Romance Books category on iTunes. [iTunes via TNW]